The recent new edition of Michael Bernard’s Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis offers the [...]
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Find Happiness By Changing Your Beliefs
Posted by austinmb on February 6th, 2012
Posted in Book Reviews, Lifestyle 
Tags: Albert Ellis, beliefs, Michael Bernard, psychology, rationality 
No Comments »The Health Benefits of Volunteering
Posted by austinmb on February 4th, 2012
One of the long-standing questions of evolutionary biology is why altruistic behavior ever developed in organisms. After all, the whole [...]
Posted in Body, Health and Wellness, Lifestyle Tags: health, health benefits, healthy life, volunteering No Comments »Finding Freedom in Structure: Life in a Soto Zen Temple
Posted by austinmb on February 3rd, 2012
Having grown up in America, where individual choices and freedom are valued above all, it’s difficult to imagine giving one’s [...]
Buddha’s Love: The Pleasures and Pains of Meditation
Posted by austinmb on February 3rd, 2012
Meditation hurts. That’s what most surprised me. When I made the decision to study Buddhism in Japan in an experientally-based [...]
